Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu

Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Davis. In addition, he holds a joint appointment as the Facilities Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.

His research interests include time-resolved Raman spectroscopy/imaging, nonlinear microscopy, and SERS-based biosensors.

Dr. Wachsmann-Hogiu holds a major in Biophysics from Bucharest University in Romania. In 2000 he received his PhD in Experimental Physics from Humboldt University/Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, where he used time-resolved Raman/CARS spectroscopy to investigate elementary chemical reactions. After two-years of a postdoctoral appointment in the Chemistry Department at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he performed Stark spectroscopy on conductive polymers and biological materials, he moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a Research Scientist I.

In March 2005, he became faculty (Assistant Professor) within the Surgery Department as well as Director of the Advanced Optical Imaging Laboratory within the Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute. It was here that Dr. Wachsmann-Hogiu became interested in translating novel optical technologies into viable tools for biomedical applications.